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Re: How Reddit Got Obama

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So your complaint is the POTUS should've come to the AMA with more time to spend, hunted down "better" questions to answer, and then spent more time thoroughly answering the questions. Someone else's complaint is going to be, why is the POTUS wasting his time and our tax dollars with reddit? Someone else's complaint is going to be that reddit's lucky POTUS gave them any of his time and that reddit was not appropriate…

So your complaint is the POTUS should've come to the AMA with more time to spend, hunted down "better" questions to answer, and then spent more time thoroughly answering the questions. You clearly are not reading the subtext of what (s)he's saying, or you're willfully ignoring it to appear steadfast in your dissent: it has been admitted and acknowledged that the POTUS had a limited amount of time with his interaction…

I read the AMA while it was in progress, as I could through the downtime, and I read the summary post in the thread afterwards before all of this discussion on HN.

What exactly do you expect? The POTUS to, simply because he is on reddit, to suddenly say "By the way, I smoked pot, I'm an athiest, I think the RIAA is evil, etc.?"

He is the current President and actively campaigning for re-election, and he stated up front that he had 30 minutes to burn to "personally" answer questions. To expect this AMA to have gone any other way is simply naive. Regardless of what you believe politics are or should be, expecting anything different is neglecting the reality of modern politics.

Re: How Reddit Got Obama

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So your complaint is the POTUS should've come to the AMA with more time to spend, hunted down "better" questions to answer, and then spent more time thoroughly answering the questions. You clearly are not reading the subtext of what (s)he's saying, or you're willfully ignoring it to appear steadfast in your dissent: it has been admitted and acknowledged that the POTUS had a limited amount of time with his interaction…

I read the AMA while it was in progress, as I could through the downtime, and I read the summary post in the thread afterwards before all of this discussion on HN. What exactly do you expect? The POTUS to, simply because he is on reddit, to suddenly say "By the way, I smoked pot, I'm an athiest, I think the RIAA is evil, etc.?" He is the current President and actively campaigning for re-election, and he stated up fro…

Why can't we express a desire for something better, while knowing full well that Obama is a politician and, like just about any American politician, got into office by avoiding hard questions and giving the answers the great unwashed masses want to hear?

Re: How Reddit Got Obama

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Wait, what's going on? I want to understand but I can't decipher your words.

Wait, do you really want to know? Really, really? OK, http://www.obamasrealfather.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s9StxsFllY

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthers/birthcertifica...

Re: How Reddit Got Obama

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post #101
post #91

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So your complaint is the POTUS should've come to the AMA with more time to spend, hunted down "better" questions to answer, and then spent more time thoroughly answering the questions. You clearly are not reading the subtext of what (s)he's saying, or you're willfully ignoring it to appear steadfast in your dissent: it has been admitted and acknowledged that the POTUS had a limited amount of time with his interaction…

I read the AMA while it was in progress, as I could through the downtime, and I read the summary post in the thread afterwards before all of this discussion on HN. What exactly do you expect? The POTUS to, simply because he is on reddit, to suddenly say "By the way, I smoked pot, I'm an athiest, I think the RIAA is evil, etc.?" He is the current President and actively campaigning for re-election, and he stated up fro…

The assertion that holding my politicians to a higher standard than playing word games is naive? That kind of apathetic thinking is exactly what allows the kind of things that stem from Washington to continue, people think it's naive and fruitless to speak up, so no one ever does.

Thanks for the harsh reminder of reality.

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> Do not vote. Wonderful way to be lazy while pretending to take a moral stand: Claim they're all crooks, that you can't see any difference between them, and that you refuse to participate. It's laziness mixed with condescension and moral outrage. Perfect!

You have lot to learn, derleth, and a lot of arrogance and ignorance to own up to. http://www.lewrockwell.com/hein/hein70.html http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo59.html http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/dunaway-r1.html http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/huebert7.html http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/katz2.html http://www.lewrockwell.com/mcelroy/mcelroy37.html http://www.lewrockwell.com/casey/casey62.1.html I…

> I DON'T think you have it all figured out!

But you think you do.

Re: How Reddit Got Obama

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Why on Earth would he go touch marijuana legalization with a 10-foot pole? Well, if its good enough for TED, why not Reddit? http://whohastimeforthis.blogspot.com/2012/03/best-of-ted-20... Hands down, the best [TED] talk this year was from Bryan Stevenson on injustice in the US criminal legal system. For example, the number of prisoners in the last 40 years has grown from 300,000 to 2.3 million (primarily, I believe,…

You just wooshed my comment, hard. I'm not saying it's not a real issue, I'm saying he'd have to be an idiot to address it. It's a no-win situation for him: either piss of the young voters he's trying to court, or piss off the swing voters he needs to court. There is simply nothing for him to gain by addressing marijuana legalization. Ron Paul doesn't suffer from this problem. He's not trying (or able) to win the Whi…

> He's not trying (or able) to win the White House; he's trying to bring issues to the forefront of the public consciousness and raise awareness of libertarian positions.

No, he's trying to make money from campaign donations. He always succeeds.

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